The country’s national debt stands at $22 trillion and it continues to surge. The upcoming presidential election requires essential focus on this national debt crisis. Americans listen to the corporate media and establishment’s pronouncements that the economy is doing fine. But, the gap in wealth and income distribution becomes wider as each year passes. The rich get richer. The poor get poorer. The middle class is shrinking.
Some of the Democratic presidential candidates propose raising the tax rate on the rich. But, with those additional revenues – if this tax policy were to be adopted – the Democratic candidates are pushing for targeted tax credits and/or more government spending for purposes they deem important. Enough is enough! Any new additional revenues realized from such a tax on the wealthy should go back to the people, not to government to spend more. The people (middle class and poor) should receive a tax cut so they can decide how much to save and how much to spend and for what purposes; not the government saying they are giving free college, tax credits for day care, etc.
If we would stop the unending wars, regional overseas conflicts, and foreign interventionism which have cost America trillions of dollars, and we would stop interfering in other nations’ affairs, replacing with friendly trading and commerce relationships, we can begin to start dealing with this overwhelming debt that will eventually make our country go bankrupt. If we are a nation that values liberty, freedom, prosperity and peace, our national public policies need to be reversed as the book “9/11 How America Changed” pontificates. In the closing chapter, the book states, “Americans must play a role in ending the wars, the tax thievery, the devaluation of the dollar by the Federal Reserve, other liberty-busting actions by the American government, and demonizing whistleblowers as ‘traitors.” As the book states, unless Americans become involved with their government at every level, further hardships, more military and foreign policy adventurism and blowback will occur to the point of “eventual disappearance of liberty, peace, and prosperity.”
The call-to-action is for every American to be a civic participant or else the two party system and the fourth estate will continue to misrepresent information that is vital for informed judgements that help restore an exceptional nation, based on a moral sphere of actions.
— Deborah K. Smarth, Manalapan